The current owners have restored the home to its pre-Civil War glory. The oldest parts of the home were built in 1784, and it still sits like a trip back in time under the moss-covered oak trees.
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For nearly 50 years, the rented room where Lee Harvey Oswald lived in Dallas has been off-limits to the media. But now the former boarding house is for sale, and CBS News got a look inside.
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Like something out of a Dickens novel, 81 years ago a loss left a family so bereft that they essentially tried to freeze time. Grocer William Straw Sr. lived for about 10 years with his wife and youngest son in a semi-detached home in the Sheffield suburb of Worksop, in northern England. The family lived an...
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By Laura Vecsey
Forget the War of 1812. How about a home whose historic foundation dates back a full century earlier that has just been listed for sale in Newark, N.J.? The Sydenham House was built in 1712 as a two-room saltbox over a root cellar and was later expanded in 1826. It's now a five-bedroom,...
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Now here's something hard to believe: The White House, one of the most historically significant buildings in the world -- and the most valuable home in America -- once came close to being a teardown. When Harry Truman took office in 1945, the grand home of the POTUS was falling apart. It was 150 years old at...
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One of a cluster of luxury homes at Greenbrier Resort, this mountain home faces the third-hole fairway of The Greenbrier golf course. The Greenbrier, established in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va. in 1778, is a historic resort.
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By Erika Riggs
How well do you know your U.S. history? It might have been awhile since your eighth-grade civics class, so we're giving you a brush-up on Colonial events with a real estate twist this Independence Day. From homes of Declaration signers to estates near Revolutionary War battlefields, we're...
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The skinniest house in New York City has already served its prior tenants well, since it was at 75.5 Bedford St. where the great American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay wrote the poem that won her the Pulitzer Prize.
Maybe form is more than function, it's inspirational -- given the way the skinny house appears...
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With the announcement that some 3,700 U.S. Post Offices are at risk of being closed for good, a little slice of Americana fades with every shuttered storefront. But we're not the only ones choked up about the closures. While many may fall by the wayside, some decommissioned post offices are being restored and...
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Former President Bill Clinton attended an honorary ceremony in Hope, Ark. on Saturday to mark his boyhood home a national historical site. Accompanied by Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and U.S. Rep. Mike Ross, the erstwhile commander-in-chief regaled the crowd with memories of growing up in rural...
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The historic home of The Jungle author Upton Sinclair, originally on the market in Monrovia, Calif., for $1.5 million has been reduced to $1.3 million. Built in 1923, it has 2,380 square feet, 3 bedrooms and 2 baths. In 1971, it became a Registered National Historic Landmark. National Historic Landmarks are...
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The Forbes family has decided to unload their historic London home, Old Battersea House, which Malcolm Forbes purchased in the early 1970s. (See our photo gallery of the Old Battersea House.)
Situated along the Thames river, just on the other side of Chelsea, the 10-bedroom mansion with five reception rooms is...
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For the reasonable sum of $695,000, you could make like Scarlett O'Hara on your very own plantation, complete with formal gardens, several servants' cottages, even a peach orchard. The catch, for some, might be the Eutaw, Ala., location.
Listing agent Vanessa Lockhart says she envisions three types of people...
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With its colorful cast of owners and near-miraculous longevity, the house on 31 Alta St. may be the oldest -- and at least the most interesting -- home in all of San Francisco. And if the price is right -- the home just went on the market -- you can add your name to a list of bootleggers and seafarers who once...
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Be a smarter shopper with our tips on what you need to know before entering a home lottery, whether to buy a $1 house, and how to protect yourself against real estate scammers.
See what else was hot on HousingWatch this week:
1. Eleanor Roosevelt's $14M NYC Townhouse Perfect for Bush Twin
Though its decor may...
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